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Plant: Blushing Bride - Hydrangea
Hydrangea · Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blushing Bride'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Blushing Bride opens pure white semi double florets in large rounded mophead heads that slowly turn light blush pink or soft blue as they age, the shift depending on soil pH. It blooms on both old and new wood, so flowers keep coming from late spring into fall, and it makes a compact upright rounded shrub about 3 to 5 feet tall and wide, hardy in zones 4 to 9. It performs best with four to six hours of morning sun followed by afternoon shade in moist, well drained soil, and suits foundation beds, shaded borders, containers and cutting.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Blushing Bride opens pure white semi double florets in large rounded mophead heads that slowly turn light blush pink or soft blue as they age, the shift depending on soil pH. It blooms on both old and new wood, so flowers keep coming from late spring into fall, and it makes a compact upright rounded shrub about 3 to 5 feet tall and wide, hardy in zones 4 to 9. It performs best with four to six hours of morning sun followed by afternoon shade in moist, well drained soil, and suits foundation beds, shaded borders, containers and cutting.
- Flowers
- Large rounded mophead heads of pure white semi double florets that age to light blush pink or soft blue depending on soil pH.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, obovate to broadly ovate leaves 4 to 8 inches long with a short pointed tip and coarsely serrate margins, glossy and somewhat fleshy.
- Fruit
- A cup-like capsule that matures in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Bark light brown to tan with large leaf scars; stems emerge from the ground and rarely branch.
- Light
- Morning Sun
- Native range
- Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia
